Dracula Episode 4

From Darkness To Light

 

We start on an early version of the subway. Somebody covered in a blanket appears to be drunk. Sitting further down the car is a trio of vampires. Slowly they get up and start stalking their prey. Only who is really the prey here? Lady Jayne throws off her blanket and gets her Buffy on. The third vampire, Josef Cervanka, knows an ass kicking when he sees one and he escapes off the moving train. He goes to Carfax Manor to seek asylum from his old master, Dracula.

 

Alexander Grayson has offered his palatial home for Harker and Mina's engagement party. Watching from the shadows, Josef can't help but notice the similarities between Mina and Dracula's long-dead wife. While Mina and Lucy discuss floral arrangements, Dracula gives Harker a mission to research General Colin Shaw who is advocating war with the Ottoman Empire. After Harker and Lucy leave, Grayson offers to show Mina a test run of his steampunk thingy in the basement. Suddenly things start to blow up and blow steam. Dracula grabs Mina to shelter her with his body.

 

Van Helsing tests his latest sunscreen serum on Dracula. It kinda sort of works, if you discount the flames bursting out of Dracula's fingertips. Now all Vlad needs is a heart that pumps or at least something like it.

 

Back at Van Helsing's laboratory, Mina is supposed to be working but instead is nosing around. She discovers a secret door that is locked. Naturally she just has to find out what is behind the door. It's another laboratory. Naturally she just has to find out what is on these slides. They're samples of blood (Dracula's).

 

Lucy kinda sort of makes a confession of love but Mina is too thick-headed to get it.

 

Grayson takes Lady Jayne out to a mud wrestling match. This totally turns her on. They can't get their clothes off fast enough.

 

Josef has been snacking down in the kitchen... on the kitchen staff.

 

Mr. Browning and crew meet with General Ogilvy and General Shaw. There's that bald British actor whose name I still can't recall. He's playing General Shaw. Good thing too as Mr. Browning is tired of General Ogilvy and has him strangled. At least Bald British Bloke has some lines this episode.

 

(A-ha, the guy's name is Peter Woodward. Thank you, Scott G. That was driving me crazy.)

 

Lord Davenport sets off on his own private crusade to destroy Alexander Grayson for what happened to Daniel. Daddy Davenport meets with a Miss Kleiberson to arrange revenge.

 

Renfield expresses his distrust and dislike of Dracula's buddy, Josef.

 

Lady Jayne's breasts invite Grayson over in order to break up with him.

 

Josef asks his master for permission to kill Jayne. Dracula seems to give it to him. Jayne is asleep in her bed when Josef appears in her bedroom. Suddenly Grayson grabs Josef from behind. The two men struggle with Grayson appearing to be knocked out. All this noise rouses Jayne from her sleep and she beheads Josef, his vampire ashes swirling around like a mini tornado. Grayson comes to and Jayne assures him he scared the intruder away. She now sees Grayson as the man who came to her rescue (or at least tried).

 

As part of his assignment to dig up dirt on Shaw, Harker meets with a one-armed veteran who in turn directs Jonathan to a woman called Vera Markham. And that's all we see about that until next episode.

 

Renfield is out doing business on behalf of the steampunk thingy. He's attacked, knocked out and dragged away by Lord Davenport's minions.

Dracula Episode 3

Goblin Merchant Men

 

 

Do you like your men in chains? Then you're in luck as the opening scene has our wet and half-dressed protagonist with an iron collar around his throat as he fends off his attackers. The goons are dressed in Medieval armor so I take it this is a flashback. They finally outnumber Dracula and beat him into the ground. When Dracula (or Vlad at this point) regains consciousness he finds himself surrounded by men in robes.

 

A hairy old man holding a ram's skull approaches the restrained Vlad. He tips the skull allowing thick, dark blood to be forced down Vlad's throat. Then, just for good measure, the hairy guy takes out a dagger and slits the prisoner's throat. Slowly dying on the cobblestones, Vlad has a vision of his beloved Iiona/Mina.

 

When he awakens again, Vlad is hanging from the ceiling. A monk enters the cell to explain Vlad has been punished by the Order of the Dragon for defying them and God. They have made him into a monster, the Undead.

 

Now back to London times.

 

(Dracula reminds me in a way of Bridal Mask. The show has only one street to use to represent an entire city.)

 

Lucy, still wearing her awful colours, has stopped by Mina's house to console her broken-hearted friend. (I still want to throttle the hairdressers of this show. Late 19th century English women didn't run around with their hair down like they do in this program!)

 

Lady Jayne Wetherby and her breasts have stopped by the insane asylum to talk with Dr. Murray, Mina's father, about treating her junkie psychics.

 

Dr. Murray is having tea with his old colleague, Professor Van Helsing, and asking for a new drug. Apparently doctor/client confidentiality hasn't been invented yet as Murray blabs about Lady Jayne being his patient. Van Helsing in turn reports back to Dracula who orders Van Helsing to provide the drug as it's obviously meant for the junkie seers.

 

That evening (or at least some evening) Dracula and Jayne have done the do and she's asleep. He takes the time to get half dressed and search her home. Dracula easily finds a secret door that takes him down to Jayne's dungeon. Behind a barred door he finds a grimy woman with vampire teeth. She reaches out to Dracula and begs him to kill her. He doesn't. When Dracula returns to Jayne's bedroom, his red eyes have tears in them.

 

Daniel Davenport surprises me as he actually does make it to Episode 3. He and dad, Lord Davenport, are out having lunch at a restaurant when Daddy spots poor Jonathan Harker sitting all by himself. Daddy calls the maitre'd over intending to send an expensive bottle of wine to Harker's table. The maitre'd reveals that Mr. Harker had just now ordered an expensive bottle of wine to be sent over to the Davenport table. Oh, and there's that bald British guy I've seen elsewhere before but for the life of me I can't remember his name. He did a series on the History Channel about Egypt. But that's neither here nor there as he turns out to not have any lines.

 

Lucy takes Mina out on the town to forget about Jonathan. They get publicly drunk and disorderly, just like 19th century ladies DID NOT DO.

 

Daniel Davenport begs his (surprisingly buff) lover to run away with him far out of the reach of The Order. Lord Laurent declines. He understands he's in big trouble with the Dragons for selling his coolant shares to Dracula. Laurent won't be a coward and run away from his impending doom.

 

It's early in the morning and our drunk debutantes are stumbling their way back home. Across the street in his carriage, Dracula wants to watch as Mina discovers a large bouquet of roses on the doorstep but the sun is coming up and Renfield feels the need to protect his master from the harmful UV rays. They return home to Carfax Manor where Dracula rants at Van Helsing for not working on the solar vaccine for him.

 

Lord Laurent is brought before the members of the Order, which includes his lover, Daniel. Mr. Browning proclaims that it is written in the Order's bylaws that anyone betraying the Order shall get a big blade rammed into his chest. Daniel must look on as Laurent's fast-flowing blood pools at the young man's feet. (Wow, I didn't think they would kill Laurent off the show so quickly.)

 

Tonight Lucy takes Mina out to a dive bar where they can try Absinthe and listen to hippy music. (It's Anemone by The Brian Jonestown Massacre in case you're wondering.) As the liquor kicks in, Mina watches as everyone dirty dances in slow motion. Some viewers are getting the vibe that Lucy swings both ways and right now she's wanting Mina to swing with her.

 

Mina gets up and stumbles her way into a vision. She finds herself in a cobblestone courtyard, the same place where Vlad had been chained and beaten. When she wakes up, Mina is hit upon by a hippy poet painter. When she laughs off his advances, the hippy gets angry. Before he can do anything to her, though, Dracula grabs the hippy by the collar and throws the man across the room.

 

Mina wakes up after her night of partying to discover it's two in the afternoon and she's missed today's lecture. She meets with Professor Van Helsing who gives her a hangover concoction. (Mina is wearing a short sleeved shirt as 19th century ladies DID NOT DO.) She asks her mentor for another chance to prove herself worthy.

 

Van Helsing sends the new drug to Dr. Murray who sends it to Jayne Wetherby who sends it to her junkie seers. The seers tap into the Porn Channel as Dracula and Jayne are writhing together on top of her bed. Suddenly the voyeurs are stricken by paralysis. They're conscious but can't move. Van Helsing walks in with his little black bag of doom. He takes out a nice shiny metal hammer and bludgeons the seers to a pulp.

 

Jonathan and Mina kiss and make up, thanks in part to Dracula.

 

Mr. Browning and Jayne Wetherby find the dead junkies. Jayne fears London will now be overrun with vampires.

 

A distraught Daniel Davenport shoots his brains out. (I knew he wouldn't last long; I just got the episode number wrong.) Daddy Davenport finds his dead son as well as the suicide note that explains how "Alexander Grayson" had blackmailed the late Lord Laurent into selling his company shares.

Dracula Episode 2

A Whiff Of Sulfur

 

 

We go back a few years to Romania, 1881, when Van Helsing slit that guy's throat and re-animated Dracula. Drac doesn't wake up in too good of a mood so Van Helsing has to use his crucifix switchblade to keep the vampire under control until they make their deal to destroy the Order of the Dragon. (Why does a 15th century Transylvanian have a British accent?)

 

Back to London where Van Helsing rebukes Dracula for killing Kruger and alerting the Order to the fact there's a vampire in town. At the same time Van Helsing is wielding big ass hypodermic needles and taking large samples of Dracula's blood. The professor is experimenting to find a way for Dracula to be able to walk in sunlight without sizzling.

 

Elsewhere in London our other main characters are having a nice luncheon while watching a fencing tournament. Lucy (the actress looks like a poor man's Keira Knightly) is wearing horribly clashing colours as she chooses her champion/lover. Up in the balcony, Jayne Wetherby and that mysterious man whose name I still don't know are talking about replacing the dead Kruger. Jayne volunteers to handle it herself. Mystery Man isn't too happy with Jayne's use of dementors seers.

 

Lucy's choice is beaten by Daniel Davenport. He's the son of Lord Davenport, a member of the Order. Later out in the hall Daniel is greeted by Lord Laurent, another Order member. They secretly make plans to meet later. Um, am I supposed to think what I'm thinking?

 

Lord Laurent is asked to stop by and meet with "Alexander Grayson". Grayson wants to buy Laurent's shares of the British Imperial Coolant. Or something like that. Laurent is frightfully insulted at the offer as only a British lord can be.

 

Later that night Dracula and Renfield take the horseless carriage out for a spin (all of 5 mph!) to the offices of The Inquisitor, the newspaper Jonathan Harker works for. Renfield dares to ask his boss why Dracula doesn't simply turn Mina into a vampire. Dracula tries to explain how morally wrong that would be although he can't bear the thought of losing her twice.

 

After picking up Harker, Dracula takes them all out townhouse shopping. Dracula makes a job offer to the ambitious (and poor) reporter to come work for him. As an extra perk, the townhouse would be at Harker's disposal. Nevermind that it's Dead Clive's old place. They've cleaned his blood up off the front stoop.

 

Somewhere in an opium den Jayne Wetherby (wearing a long leather coat so you know she means business) has come to yell at her junkie seers and warn them to start seering or they'll answer to Mr. Browning. Is that the name of Mystery Man?

 

Harker tells Mina about the job offer. Mina is thrilled and pushes her boyfriend to accept it. Harker, perhaps due to his reporter instincts, has his reservations about it.

 

Jayne is having dinner with Dracula. Once again her breasts are about to pop out of her dress. Not that she's going to be in that dress for long as she and "Alexander Grayson" get all slobbery on each other. Parental discretion is advised.

 

Mina is walking to her school when Grayson stops his carriage and offers her a ride before it starts to rain. She's confides in him her worries about an upcoming exam. He gives her a little pep talk. Mina proceeds with her examination by dissecting a man and not getting a drop of blood on her.

 

The junkie seers are looking into their giant mirror and can see the back of Dracula. He can sense them and turns around. Baring his fangs he lunges. The mirror cracks with blood seeping through.

 

Jayne reports the incident to Mystery Man/Mr. Browning? Only a very old vampire, at least a couple of centuries old, would have had the power to sense the seers and strike back. There hasn't been anything like this since Lucrezia Borgia, who apparently was also a vampire.

 

Against his better judgment, and because he's tired of not being able to pick up the check, Harker takes up Grayson's offer. As his first assignment, Harker tells Grayson of a certain club Lord Laurent likes to hang out at. While it's no Turkish bath, those Hooter girls aren't girls, if you know what I mean.

 

Ah, young Daniel Davenport is there with Laurent so I was supposed to be think what I was thinking. NBC, you're showing two men kissing!? I'm shocked! But then, you are the Peacock Network. Laurent isn't pleased to see Grayson in this private club. He's even less pleased when Grayson leans in and gives young Davenport a sweet little kiss on the lips. Parental discretion is still advised.

 

Grayson gets right to the blackmailing. What would Laurent's wife or Davenport's father think of their inclinations? What would it do to the reputation of their families?

 

Over at the newspaper, Harker is showing off the teeny tiny engagement ring he plans to present to Mina tonight. One of the extras asks some silly question about how can a wife be a physician as well? Harker, who's had a few too many already, is confident that once he puts the ring on Mina's finger she'll forget all this silly nonsense about going to college and having a career.

 

And of course Mina just came into the room in time to hear all this.

 

Dracula is out at a restaurant and has chosen the hatcheck girl as his main course. He's ripping out her throat in a back alley when he hears footsteps approaching. He slips away just as Jayne and her kukri come around the corner. Since he wasn't able to finish the job, Jayne cuts the girl's head off. I guess so she won't become a vampire.

Scandal: A Shocking and Wrongful Incident Episode 36

And so it is time to say farewell to this drama. I would like to thank the Academy the hardworking Scandalous Team over at Viki who worked so quickly (and free) on this show. 

The doctors are striving to shock Ha Myeong Geun back to life. Out in the waiting room Soo Young thinks back to all the hurtful things she said to her father. 

Fake Eun Joong meets with his not-brother-in-law to ask Jo Jin Woong to work with him in protecting Taeha Group from falling into Real Eun Joong's hands. It's all about the money with you, Fake. Jin Woong is hesitant to join forces with Fake as he's not all that sure Fake will win this fight.

!!!CENTER POLE!!!

The Three Joo's are opening a new store. Joo Pil, thanks to rapid Kdrama therapy, is now out of his wheelchair and getting around just fine. He's the one who has to tell Joo Ha about her father turning himself in and being in a detention center. Joo Pil advises her to quickly get her father to give her power of attorney before Fake can get it.

I take it the defibrillator worked as Myeong Geun's machine is beeping again. Soo Young makes peace with her unconscious father. All her caterwauling is enough to make Myeong Geun wake up. 

Yoon Hwa Young is sitting out in the hospital hallway when Real Eun Joong (praying hard in the elevator) arrives. First she makes her son promise to never turn himself into the police again before taking Eun Joong in to see his not-father. With a weak voice, Myeong Geun reminds Eun Joong how they were planning to take a trip to the mountains. He'd still like to go, just the two of them. 

Over at the Jang house, all that's left of the family is Fake Eun Joong, Joo Ha and Jin Woong and they're all fighting over who gets to be chairman of the board. 

Hwa Young pays a visit to Tae Ha at the prison. They seem to make their peace and Tae Ha agrees to sign the divorce papers next time she comes to visit.

Real Eun Joong is packing up the Center Pole camping gear in the car. Alone, he takes a moment to break down and cry. Myeong Geun comes out of the house to say goodbye to the womenfolk, who are all trying to keep a brave face. He smiles and waves at them from the car as Eun Joong drives away. Oh, you know that'll be the last time the women see him alive.

Fake Eun Joong goes to the prison to visit with his father. Tae Ha knows the only real reason Fake is here is for the power of attorney. Fake neatly lays out the paperwork, a pen and the pad for the thumbprint. Tae Ha picks up the pen and in the appropriate places writes

Jang Joo Ha

Eat it, Fake Eun Joong.

Fake screams that he'll just rip this paper up. Tae Ha can't do anything to his not-son now that he's in prison. Tae Ha says nothing as there's nothing to say. It doesn't matter if Fake rips the papers up as Joo Ha got the power of attorney from her father already. Fake bawls like a baby.

Myeong Geun and Real Eun Joong are walking up a (kind of crowded) hiking trail. An extremely skinny old man congratulates Myeong Geun on having such a devoted son. 

Myeong Geun and Eun Joong have a nice father and son time around the campfire as they knock back barrels of rice wine. Myeong Geun doesn't want to go to sleep (because he's about to have the Big Sleep) so goes to wade in an icy cold creek to keep himself awake. Eun Joong takes off his shoes and socks to join his father in the cold, cold water. They smile and splash water at each other. Then Eun Joong loudly shouts, "Father, thank you for raising me!"

And that's when I have to go get my tissues.

They make it back to the tent and their warm Center Pole sleeping bags. Eun Joong can't really get any sleep as he's constantly checking to make sure his father is still breathing. 

The next morning Eun Joong is the only one who wakes up.

Time skip (I'm assuming) to the big day when Chairman Jang Joo Ha has the Zeus condos torn down. Fake Eun Joong watches this on the telly at the airport as he and his one bag of luggage are heading off somewhere to start anew. Real Eun Joong watches the explosion from the rooftop of a nearby building. 

Time skip (I'm sure this time) one year later. Real Eun Joong is back on the police force. Hwa Young reopens her law firm. Soo Young gets her old job back. Jo Jin Woong gets released from prison. (No, I don't know when or how this happened. I guess it had to do with the scam he and his dad were trying to pull.) Joo Ha greets him with tofu and divorce papers. She has to make him look twice at the papers before he notices it mentions she wants custody of their daughter which he didn't know she'd had. Joo Ha offers to start over with her husband for the sake of their secret baby.

Real Eun Joong goes to visit Tae Ha in prison and talk about the bread his biological dad has been baking. Eun Joong has moved back home with Soo Young. She's preparing things for Myeong Geun's death memorial. Hwa Young and Ah Mi are also there. Are they still living in the house as well? Not sure. Eun Joong had been reading his father's last entry in his diary. Myeong Geun had felt the love from everyone and wondered if he was worthy of it all.

Afterwards they're all looking through Eun Joong's photo album. He had earlier commented to his sister how he didn't have any picture of him and Myeong Geun together except for that one family photo. Hwa Young, however, points out to her son that Myeong Geun is in every one of the photos, just way back there in the back. So for every important moment in Eun Joong's life, Dad had been there after all.

Ah Mi goes out back to check on the garden. Eun Joong joins her and tells Ah Mi to stop paying so much attention to the tomatoes and start paying more attention to him. 

Zoom! We're suddenly at a church. The guests start clapping as a bride walks down the aisle. There's Hwa Young, Joo Ha, Jin Woong...  

And Eun Joong and Ah Mi. 

They're here to attend the wedding of Go Joo Ran and Kang Joo Pil. Hwa Young happens to glance around and sees standing at the back is Fake Eun Joong. He joins the rest of the cast for the wedding photo. Everybody holds hands. 

Real Eun Joong and Ah Mi stay behind in the church so they can say a little prayer for their departed loved ones. At peace now, Eun Joong and Ah Mi smile at each other.

The End.

Scandal Episode 35

Per Jang Tae Ha's orders, Ha Myeong Geun climbs over the side of the railing up on the roof of the highrise.

 

Down below, Real Eun Joong and his manly backpack are arriving at work when he sees two old men out front holding protest signs. It has something to do with that crooked deal Jo Jin Woong is pulling and I don't care about. After learning Eun Joong works here, one of the old men grabs the young man's collar and starts shaking. This causes Real Eun Joong to look up and notice the teeny tiny speck up in the sky that is his kidnapper father.

 

Suddenly Myeong Geun remembers how Eun Joong (after they were reunited in the hospital) had asked for his father to keep fighting to live a little bit longer. Myeong Geun changes his mind about jumping but he's too afraid to move. He asks Tae Ha to help save him. Tae Ha, to my surprise, actually does grab Myeong Geun and pulls him back over the railing to safety.

 

Real Eun Joong takes the old protestors up to his office so he can learn more about his brother-in-law's greedy plans.

 

It wouldn't be a Scandal episode if Center Pole wasn't shoved down our throat some way. Jang Joo Ha is overseeing a photo shoot when she receives a phone call from a bank. They've been trying to get a hold of Jin Woong but he's not answering so they've called her. It's about the loan he was asking for and listed Joo Ha as a co-signer. This is news to Joo Ha.

 

Phooey. Is this episode going to be nothing but business talk? I hate business talk.

 

Real Eun Joong is in his office looking at papers when Myeong Geun drops by to tell his son how much he loves him.

 

Over at the Ha house, Fake Eun Joong gives Hwa Young a new phone and prompts her to start using this one although he won't admit to the clone phone Tae Ha has. Hwa Young won't take his phone but she gets the idea and will get another one on her own. Fake tries to rebuild bridges with his mother but she's finally reached the end of the line with him, what with the whole trying to kill Real Eun Joong and all.

 

With that scene abruptly over with, Fake Eun Joong is now accompanying Tae Ha down to the D.A.'s office for questioning. But when they enter the office it is to discover Real Eun Joong is already there and confessing to the crimes that Tae Ha is really guilty of.

 

Even with this twist Tae Ha continues on with the plan by pulling out the pictures of the D.A. with another woman and a child. The prosecutor claims it's all innocent. This isn't his secret family but the widow and child of an old friend of his. Tae Ha argues back that by the time the media get a hold of the pictures no one will believe the prosecutor.

 

That's when Kang Joo Pil (in a wheelchair) is brought into the room. A defiant Joo Pil warns Tae Ha that if the pictures are made public then he will go public with the whole sordid story behind the blackmail scheme.

 

Hwa Young arrives at the building as Tae Ha and Fake are walking down the hall. When she learns her son has taken the rap for Tae Ha she falls to the floor. After everyone is gone she goes in to try and talk the D.A. out of doing anything. The prosecutor fully admits he's using Real Eun Joong as bait in order to catch Jang Tae Ha.

 

Hwa Young wakes Tae Ha up from his nap to try and get him to go to the authorities and confess in order to save their son. Tae Ha replies Eun Joong made his own choice. Hwa Young gets down on the floor (again) and begs her husband to save Eun Joong. She lays the guilt on with a trowel.

 

Time passes I take it as next time we see Hwa Young she's asleep on the couch. Fake gently covers her with a blanket as he too feels the weight of The Guilt. Tae Ha goes back to his nap. Real Eun Joong comes into the bedroom and covers his father up with the blanket off of his own bed.

 

The Guilt!

 

The next morning at the outdoor workout facility, we see Myeong Geun lying on the ground. Nearby joggers don't pay him any mind.

 

Fake Eun Joong cries over all the old pictures of penguins he tried to draw.

 

Someone finally notices the old man on the ground and calls an ambulance. Myeong Geun is being rushed to the hospital as Real Eun Joong is heading off to his trial. The women at the Ha house come to the hospital where a nurse with no bedside manner at all tells them to prepare for the worst. This time it is Soo Young's turn to hit the floor.

 

Since the scandal broke over Real Eun Joong's confession, Taeha Group has been on shaky ground. Fake Eun Joong urges his father to make a decision: either go to the office and save the business or go to the D.A. and save his son. Tae Ha says he'll go to the office.

 

He goes to get dressed and puts on the Ugliest Jacket Ever. Before he leaves the bedroom he finds an old picture Real Eun Joong drew of an emperor penguin back before he was kidnapped.

 

Ah, Myeong Geun has flat lined!

 

Real Eun Joong is sitting in the D.A.'s office. The prosecutor says it looks like Tae Ha isn't coming and they can't stop the trial just thirty minutes before it starts. (What do you mean? This is DramaLand. Of course you can stop a trial before it starts.) With a heavy heart Eun Joong starts to follow the D.A. out to stand trial when suddenly Tae Ha bursts into the room. With tears in his eyes Tae Ha confesses to everything. Real Eun Joong starts crying too. Everybody cries.

Dracula Episode 1

The Blood Is The Life

 

Dirt and debris rain down from a hole knocked into the ceiling of a crypt. A rope is dropped through and two men lower themselves down. They examine the lone coffin in the pit. While the guy with the hat breaks open the side of the coffin, the other guy celebrates finding a couple of gold bars. He doesn't celebrate for long as Hat Guy takes a knife and slits his accomplice's throat, allowing the dying man's blood to flow down over the dried-up cadaver in the tomb. Replenished with fresh hemoglobin, the mummy re-hydrates into the form of Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

 

The story now moves to London, 1896. A cleaned-up Dracula is getting dressed as Renfield reports on the guests arriving for a demonstration. Dracula is now going to portray himself as American industrialist Alexander Grayson.

 

(This Renfield doesn't look like the type to eat flies.)

 

Horse-drawn carriages pull up to Carfax Manor where the party is in full swing. An orchestra plays (music that sounds non-19th century) as dancing couples whirl around. Journalist Jonathan Harker escorts two women (wearing non-19th century dresses) into the party. The blond woman is Lucy Westenra, so if you know your Dracula you know things won't go well for her. (But then if you know your Dracula you know Jonathan Harker wasn't a journalist.) The woman with brown hair is medical student Mina Murray and 19th century women wouldn't be kissing their dates in a crowded ballroom like that.

 

With much fanfare "Alexander Grayson" is introduced to his guests. Right before he is to make a toast his eyes meet Mina's. Dracula is momentarily stunned as Mina resembles his long-lost love. After making the toast, Dracula instructs Renfield to find out everything on the woman.

 

It's time to meet his guests. First up is Jayne Wetherby, a hot-to-trot lady who is attending the party not with her husband but with some German officer. Next up are a bunch of old fogey stogies and their 'Lady' wives. The men are on the board of some British patent office and Dracula wants access to some patents concerning cooling units. Whatever, the Brits turn him down cold since he's just a Yank.

 

Per his boss's instructions, Renfield pulls Jonathan aside and offers the journalist an opportunity to interview the mysterious industrialist. Tomorrow at 4:30 good for you?

 

The lights are lowered and "Grayson" starts handing out light bulbs to his guests. Claiming to be able to tap into the magnetosphere, Dracula tells the people he can supply them with safe and wireless energy. Down in the basement, engineers start pulling levers around a steampunk-ish type of contraption. Upstairs, the bulbs all start to glow in the hands of the guests. Ooh, pretty.

 

Uh-oh, sever technical difficulties down in the basement. All that steam from the steampunk-ish contraptions is escaping.

 

The old fogey stogies are worried Grayson's new invention will put a dent in their petroleum empire. (While Tesla groupies are all up in arms.)

 

Later that evening after the party, Mina and Lucy are at her house talking while Jonathan is in his room speaking with his roommate with a foreign accent. Suddenly everyone hears a strange sound and is looking out their windows while dogs all over town begin to bark. Elsewhere, Mr. Clive (head fogey stogie) has just been dropped off at his front door when something grabs him and snarls. Great splatters of blood mar the white pillars.

 

Back at Carfax Manor, Dracula and Renfield have a floor covered in pictures and files. Dracula talks about the Order of the Dragon, which these fogey stogies appear to be a branch of. Dracula has a beef with the Dragon.

 

A foggy night in London (go figure!) sees that German dude that was hanging out with Jayne Wetherby now breaking into the dead Mr. Clive's house. Not only breaking into the house, he's now breaking into the dead Mr. Clive's coffin.

 

From his Coat of Many Weapons, the German takes out a wicked long knife and cuts off Clive's head, taking it with him. He goes to a military tailor's store where he passes off the hat/head box to Jayne who takes it upstairs to a distinguished older man who was already seen at the party. Is this the leader of the Order of the Dragon that Dracula is searching for? How do I know? I don't even know this guy's name.

 

Anyway, they already know they're dealing with a vampire. Remember that vampire from eight years ago? Jack the Ripper?

 

Mina is at a medical lecture being held by Professor Van Helsing. And that's all we get about that.

 

Jonathan arrives at Carfax Manor for his exclusive interview. The room he's left in is terrible dark so he opens the shutters to allow sunlight in. When Dracula joins his guest, Jonathan doesn't pick up on the fact that Dracula sizzles a bit from the exposure to the sun.

 

Evening falls and Mina's classes are over with. She waits alone outside as Dracula secretly watches from the shadows. Mina is soon joined by another woman and they walk off together. Dracula is left to suck the blood from another female victim (who doesn't sound like she's bothered by this at all).

 

Mina and Jonathan have a date to attend the opera. Jayne, whose dresses get tighter and tighter, is also in attendance. Jayne and her breasts are sitting alone in her box when Dracula appears behind her. He's watching Mina and Jonathan getting all snuggly so he gets all snuggly with Jayne's cleavage.

 

Lord Laurent and Lord Davenport, fogey stogies, are riding in a carriage and bemoaning the fact that "Alexander Grayson" was able to coerce Clive's widow into selling the dead man's stocks to him. As Laurent is being dropped off at his home, Dracula is watching from the roof across the street. Suddenly he's hit by an arrow in the leg. It's Krueger, the German dude.

 

Dracula pulls out the arrow, then he pulls out a sword. Action time as the two men battle atop the roof. (Is anyone at home? Does anyone wonder what the heck is all that noise coming from the roof?) German dude pulls out his handy crucifix. Dracula barely pauses as he slits Krueger's throat.

 

Elsewhere, Jayne Wetherby (wearing more comfortable clothes) is training with kukri. Nearby in a huge metal cage is a woman with a foreign accent being held prisoner. One of Dracula's brides?

 

Dracula returns home for a good stiff drink of whiskey when he's joined by Van Helsing. It was Van Helsing from the beginning of the show who revived Dracula. The professor scolds the vampire for killing Clive as this wasn't part of The Plan. Theirs is a tumultuous partnership.

Scandal Episode 34

With shaking hands, Real Eun Joong tries to call Soo Young to warn her about the danger but she's already on the phone talking with Secretary Kim. Desperate, Eun Joong runs out to stop a cab and pulls the cabdriver out (This is a police matter!) so he can drive dangerously to the house.

 

Kim is already at the house to pick up his latest victim. Soo Young has just gotten into the car when her phone rings and she sees it is Eun Joong. Before she can answer it Kim reaches over and takes the phone away from her. (Red flag! Red flag!) When he sees who is calling, Kim turns the phone off and tells Soo Young he's keeping her phone so their camping trip won't be ruined. (Red flag! For God's sake, Soo Young, don't you know a red flag when you see one?!?)

 

Meanwhile at the courthouse, Fake Eun Joong throws his mother under the bus as he tells the judge that their witness Dr. Kim is not going to be here today to testify. In turn Hwa Young throws her son under the bus when she officially announces to the judge that she's dropping her lawyer right this second. She's even got the paperwork done so she must have seen this coming.

 

Hwa Young orders Fake to get out. As a parting gift she gives him the crumpled promissory note between him and Joo Ran. The judge asks how much time Hwa Young will need to find another lawyer. Not much time at all as she plans to represent herself from now on. Girl Power!

 

Tired of being ignored, Tae Ha suddenly makes the announcement that he too is firing his lawyer and now wants to be represented by Fake Eun Joong. Remember, everything is legal in DramaLand.

 

Without needing any time to prepare, Fake begins his opening arguments. He brings up the dirt on Hwa Young about her taking in an orphan and passing him off as her long lost biological son. Then there was the whole press conference thing as well as how she's been buddy buddy with her son's kidnapper while for the past thirty years she hasn't treated her husband like a husband.

 

So now it's Hwa Young's turn to bring up Tae Ha's dirt. She starts off with the fact that before they were even married he had Joo Ran holed up somewhere having his baby and that he's continued this extramarital relationship for thirty years. Fake argues that Hwa Young waited too long to file for divorce because of infidelity. (Is there really an expiration date?)

 

Okay, then how about this: Hwa Young tells how her husband had her doctor prescribe the wrong medication for her. While she was under the influence of the drugs, Tae Ha made her lose her legal license. Fake again argues there's no proof of this. You want your proof, Fake? Here's your proof: Hwa Young calls Go Joo Ran to the stand.

 

Still driving his (stolen) cab, Real Eun Joong calls Detective Gu to get some help in tracking down Soo Young and Secreeptary Kim.

 

Back at the courtroom (which honestly is much more exciting than the search for Soo Young), Hwa Young plays the recording Joo Ran made of her when she was blitzed out of her mind. Fake tries to claim the video isn't sufficient evidence and could have been faked by the women. Hwa Young continues to pull rabbits out of her hat as she also as the housekeeper from the country house (where she was kept prisoner) here to testify.

 

Over at the very crowded campsite, Soo Young is getting some dinner ready (on her Center Pole stove, of course). Secretary Kim pulls out a knife to cut up some vegetables. Soo Young wonders what kind of guy has a knife in his back pocket. The one time something makes sense (who doesn't take a knife with them camping?) and she has to notice while all the other stop signs just whiz on past her. It's a shame the writers made you so stupid, Soo Young.

 

That night taxi-stealer Eun Joong gets to the campground where Detective Gu is already waiting for him. Thanks to Gu they've got a pretty good idea where Secretary Kim is. During this time Secretary Kim and Soo Young are enjoying a glass of wine. Kim is spouting off stuff about Ernest Hemingway and Soo Young dares to correct him. Watch out, girl - I think you've tripped one of his psycho switches when you corrected him. Psychos don't like it when you point out they're wrong.

 

Secretary Kim is about to make his move and roughly drag Soo Young into the Center Pole tent when Eun Joong finally finds them and comes running in to kick Kim's ass. Secretary Kim pulls out his knife and ONLY NOW does Soo Young start to think there's something not quite right about this guy. Eun Joong knocks the knife away and pummels the creep. (While no one else ten feet away in their campers hears this fight.)

 

Gu comes running up and has to pull Eun Joong off the bleeding man. Eun Joong orders the cop to cuff Kim and charge him with the murder of Deputy Chief Song. Also, did I mention Eun Joong is wearing his suit this entire time and he looks mighty fine in it? Eye Candy Time.

 

Ah, Secretary Kim is no Kang Ho. He's not going to go down alone for this one and starts naming names, specifically Tae Ha's.

 

Back at the Jang house, Tae Ha has received a summons from the district attorney concerning the murders of Ah Mi's husband and the deputy chief. Both Tae Ha and Fake Eun Joong are listening in on the clone phone when Hwa Young calls Real Eun Joong. He's also gotten a summons from the D.A. Hwa Young has to run her big mouth and mention the evidence only Eun Joong has concerning the murders so he'd better turn it all in tomorrow.

 

Eun Joong brings Soo Young home. Right away Hwa Young can see something is wrong with the girl and that her son's knuckles are bloody. Ah Mi does what she does best and comforts Soo Young for being so stupid while Eun Joong tells the elders what happened.

 

Over in Real's old office, Fake has hired a locksmith to break into Real's locked desk. Oh Real Eun Joong, why did you leave your investigation records in your desk located at the center of all evil?

 

Real Eun Joong has Ah Mi drive him and the stolen cab back so the show can work in one more song from the OST.

 

Fake is about to burn Real's papers when Joo Ha finds him and calls her not-brother out for turning to the Dark Side like Tae Ha. Since when did you get so self-righteous, Joo Ha? Oh wait, she actually says something that makes sense. Fake is whining about how Real came and took his position away. Joo Ha points out Fake took Real's position for 25 long years so stop acting like a victim.

 

Real comes home to the Jang house. Tae Ha asks him not to go to court tomorrow. Real insists on going. Tae Ha warns that he's not going to lose, he's never lost before and he's never going to lose ever. Real Eun Joong replies this time Tae Ha will be fighting his own son.

 

The next morning Real Eun Joong stops by the hospital to empty Joo Pil's bed pan and stuff. Joo Pil has been reborn since his baptism by fire and now offers to help Eun Joong any way he can (from his hospital bed). Joo Pil tells how long before this he helped to fabricate a scandal in order to control the D.A. so Eun Joong better watch out for that.

 

Tae Ha is in his office looking at some photos of the D.A. (I'm not sure if they're already doctored or are to be used to be doctored) when his secretary announces there's a Ha Myeong Geun insisting on seeing the chairman. Tae Ha allows his arch enemy into the office. Myeong Geun...  gets down on his knees! What are you doing?!

 

Myeong Geun apologizes to Tae Ha for taking Eun Joong away and keeps asking the evil bastard what he can do to make it up to Tae Ha.

 

Meanwhile at the D.A.'s office Real Eun Joong is...  confessing to being an accomplice to the murders of Gi Chan and Song! What are you doing?!

 

Tae Ha has dragged Myeong Geun up to the roof of the building. If Myeong Geun is truly sorry for what he's done then Tae Ha orders him to jump off the building.

 

 

 

Okay, that wasn't a very good cliffhanger. You've got two more episodes, Show. You'd better pick it up.